Categories

1. The big chip (Grand Prix)  - you can't enter this directly but all entries will be automatically considered.
2. chairman's award - you can't enter this directly but all entries will be automatically considered.
3. Best use of plagiarism
4. Best use of shocking copy
5. Best Politically Incorrect
6. Best use of bad taste
7. Best work for any brand you haven't a hope of winning
8. Best work for a client you have but haven't a hope of running
9. Best remake of an existing ad
10. Best reject - for ads that have been rejected by clients but you feel should have run
11. Best advert applied to an unusual medium
12. Best advert applied to a mobile medium
13. Best outdoor advert
14. Best ambient media
15. Best work for a relative or friend
16. Best use of a shop window postcard space
17. Best consumer ad or campaign
18. Best business to business ad
19. Best press advert
20. Best public awareness
21. Best charity ad
22. Best online ad
23. Best viral
24. Best webiste
25. Best app
26. Best tv/cinema commercial
27. Best direct mail
28. Best packaging design/point of sale
29. Best corporate identity
30. Best stationery design
31. Best self promotion
32. Best use of regional dialect
33. Invent your own category - This can be any category you can think of, as weird and wonderful as you like. 
    
    Past examples include best use of spandex, best use of sound, best use of a small transvestite

Entries for 2012 are open.  If you want to enter and be kept up to date with all things Chip Shop register with the awards